Old Quotes

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

I could walk and swim at 10 months old.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

The good old days are now.

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

How young can you die of old age?

When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.